Carter Stanley: QB · Kansas · #9.
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Carter Stanley
Operates within the system without forcing anything. Played for two head coaches in four seasons at Kansas. A game that shows it: 415 passing yards and 3 passing TD against Texas Tech — Week 9, 2019.
Play style
Balanced passer who operates within the system, without one standout number carrying the profile.
Checkdown vs gunslinger · 3rd-and-long
Where the completions actually land
61.5% completion on 3rd-and-8+, but only 29.8% conversion-per-dropback — 46.9% of completions land short of the sticks.
Where completions land is fact — whether incompletions were aimed deep is intent, not recorded here, so this card counts completions only. checkdown by design
No outlet on our list has written about this player by name this season.
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Game log · Week-by-week
2019 season · 12 games
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| Wk | Opp | CMP/ATT | YDS | TD | INT | YPA | QBR | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wk 1 | W 24-17vs Indiana State | 20/29 | 241 | 2 | 0 | 8.3 | 61.8 | |
| Wk 2 | L 7-12vs Coastal Carolina | 13/19 | 107 | 0 | 2 | 5.6 | 16.0 | |
| Wk 3 | W 48-24@ Boston College | 20/27 | 238 | 3 | 1 | 8.8 | 93.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 4 | L 24-29vs West Virginia | 19/25 | 275 | 3 | 1 | 11.0 | 73.8 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 5 | L 14-51@ TCU | 12/29 | 84 | 1 | 0 | 2.9 | 8.1 | |
| Wk 6 | L 20-45vs No. 6 Oklahoma | 18/28 | 230 | 3 | 0 | 8.2 | 50.0 | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 8 | L 48-50@ No. 15 Texas | 27/47 | 310 | 4 | 0 | 6.6 | 84.3 | 4 TD passes |
| Wk 9 | W 37-34vs Texas Tech | 26/37 | 415 | 3 | 1 | 11.2 | 91.5 | Season-high 415 yds |
| Wk 10 | L 10-38vs No. 22 Kansas State | 13/23 | 115 | 0 | 2 | 5.0 | — | |
| Wk 12 | L 13-31@ No. 25 Oklahoma State | 22/37 | 226 | 2 | 1 | 6.1 | — | |
| Wk 13 | L 31-41@ Iowa State | 23/44 | 328 | 3 | 0 | 7.5 | — | 3 TD passes |
| Wk 14 | L 6-61vs No. 11 Baylor | 13/25 | 92 | 0 | 3 | 3.7 | — | 3 INTs — rough day |
| Total | 226/370 | 2661 | 24 | 11 | 7.2 | — |
Week 8 · 2019
L 48-50
at Texas
310 yds · 4 TD · 0 INT · QBR 84.3 · 65 rush yds (9 car)
With P. Williams Jr. — 190 rush yds (25 car) · 2 TD · 4 rec · 25 yds · S. Robinson — 7 rec · 67 yds · 2 TD
The plays that mattered most
Pass Profile · Completions by yards gained (PBP)
Adjusted ANY/A, sack rate, and where the yards came from
Totals here are the box score's. Play-by-play lists 367 passing plays (225 completions) against the box score's 370 attempts (226 completions), and the depth buckets use play-by-play.
Adjusted ANY/A
6.5294 of 205 QBsSack rate
4.9%67 of 205 QBsRarely sacked (67 of 205 QBs) and still 94 of 205 in Adjusted ANY/A.
Adjusted ANY/A uses full-season box-score totals (attempts, yards, TDs, INTs); sack rate is play-by-play-derived.
Short
0–9 ydsMiddle
10–19 ydsDeep
20+ ydsOverall 61.1% completion on 370 attempts · 40 deep completions averaging 31.2 yds.
Is he a different quarterback when it matters
Each situation vs his own 2019 baseline
No situation moves him more than 54 percentile points from his baseline.
Deltas are vs. this player’s own season baseline, never a league average. League sack rate by down is shown as context because sack attribution isn’t incompletion-denominated.
Splits · Per-game
2019 season · 12 games
Home vs Road
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home7g | 211 | 1.6 | 7.6 | 1.3 |
| Road5g | 237 | 2.6 | 6.4 | 0.4 |
First half vs Second half
| YDS/g | TD/g | YPA | INT/g | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weeks 1-76g | 196 | 2.0 | 7.5 | 0.7 |
| Weeks 8+6g | 248 | 2.0 | 6.7 | 1.2 |
Supporting cast · Scheme
Staff and system around the player
Head Coach
Les Miles
Pass share
50.6%
388 pass / 379 run
Plays / game
63.9
12 games
Scheme: Balanced.
Player standing · 2019
370 pass attempts and 67 carries in 12 games, about as many passes and runs a game as a typical FBS quarterback who plays every week.
How it ended
Four seasons at Kansas, 5,032 passing yards — the college career is complete.
A stat line in 34 games over four seasons.
Coaching lineage · 2016–2019
2 coachesCoaching transition mid-career: David Beaty → Les Miles. Worth noting in scheme + development context.
